Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier on the river in Germany on May 5, 1818. His lineage was heavily rabbi. His father was a lawyer and agreed to be baptised Protestant so that he would not lose his job. It is very important for father's to have jobs and feed their sons. His father was not a protestant, but in Germany, at that time, he had to play the political relgious game. This game continues in our time. Religion requires it.

So Karl, himself an intelligent lad, grew up knowing the perspective of silly religious ritual which seemingly held no God but forced men to do petty things. None of which did much for their souls. Karl Marx also noticed a great unfairness and imbalance to the socio-economic schemes of the world he lived in. Much of the unfairness and imbalance caused by relgious overtones.

Karl grew up in comfort and knew not poverty. He also attained a good education, thanks to his father, who sent him to the Universtiy of Berlin. Prior to his attending the University of Berlin, he had attended Faculty of Law at the University of Bonn, which he enrolled in at age 17.

Karl Marx believed in the dreaming apparatus of man, however he strongly believed that their most basic needs were extremely important and sharing ownership and work would balance out extremes and therefore end poverty. Karl understood that a man who had to work himself to death just to pay the rent, probably would never pick up a book and educate his mind and dream up some great scheme to help his fellow man.

Thus, Marxism.

In the Communist Manifesto, which was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, this perspective is written: "You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existance for those nine-tenths." The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1964

Marx noticed the ruling class. Those who had. He noticed those who had not. He noticed a cause of intellectual and social imbalance. He saw the poles of extreme.

There are two kinds of men who would prevent the successful evolution of Communism which ensured that all would respectfully work and attain. First of all is the man who is greedy and would step over the dead body of a child to get where he's going. The second is the man who would lay around like a lazy ass toad and weep for his own losses, thereby creating a need for welfare.

Multiply those two kinds of men by millions and voila. Marx is outnumbered and always has been and he was unrealistic concerning the nature of men.

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